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Radioactive decay and the sun

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Radioactive decay and the sun
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RE: Radioactive decay and the sun
August 29, 2010 at 11:20 am
(August 29, 2010 at 6:56 am)solja247 Wrote: If we squeze time down to even a billion, perhaps that isnt enough time for evolution?
The evidence for evolution is far more than just "the Earth has been around for billions of years". The fossil record isn't going to vanish overnight because the Sun affects radioactive decay.

Secondly, the article does not mention how much the decay rate drops by. To make the jump from a simple announcement of a possible (i.e. unconfirmed) discovery to a suggestion that it would have a massive effect on our dating methods, without any data to back the assertion up, is unscientific.
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Radioactive decay and the sun

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Radioactive decay and the sun - by solja247 - August 29, 2010 at 5:56 am
RE: Radioactive decay and the sun - by Zen Badger - August 29, 2010 at 6:47 am
RE: Radioactive decay and the sun - by solja247 - August 29, 2010 at 6:56 am
RE: Radioactive decay and the sun - by Tiberius - August 29, 2010 at 11:20 am
RE: Radioactive decay and the sun - by theophilus - August 29, 2010 at 2:29 pm
RE: Radioactive decay and the sun - by downbeatplumb - August 29, 2010 at 2:42 pm
RE: Radioactive decay and the sun - by TheDarkestOfAngels - August 29, 2010 at 9:15 pm
RE: Radioactive decay and the sun - by Zen Badger - August 29, 2010 at 7:45 am
RE: Radioactive decay and the sun - by SleepingDemon - August 29, 2010 at 10:48 am
RE: Radioactive decay and the sun - by Minimalist - August 29, 2010 at 3:29 pm
RE: Radioactive decay and the sun - by solja247 - August 29, 2010 at 8:15 pm
RE: Radioactive decay and the sun - by Tiberius - August 29, 2010 at 9:24 pm
RE: Radioactive decay and the sun - by Minimalist - August 29, 2010 at 8:17 pm

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